- When do you leave?
August 2006
- How long do you plan to be away?
1-2 Years
- How much have you saved?
8,000
- How old are you?
22
- Nationality
USA
- Where do you live now?
San Diego, USA
- Occupation
Student
- Is this job one that you actually like, or are you only doing it to pay for the trip?
It's my career
- Have you traveled around the world before?
Yes
- What is the route you plan to take/places you plan to visit?
Europe to Israel, Cairo, Capetown, India, China, Japan, South East Asia, Australia, NZ, Polynesia, South America
- Why did you decide to take this trip? What got you into this type of travel, and/or influenced you to go?
Now is the time to go. I'm graduating in May. I've down two Semester's at Sea, and now I want to backpack solo.
- What is your biggest fear about this trip?
Missing my neices growing up.
- Are your family, friends, co-workers, etc., supportive of you? What is their opinion of your going around the world?
So-so, many people are jealous, family thinks I'm ridiculous.
- How much planning and preparing have you done?
Winged it a lot
- What are you packing? What do you consider your most indispensable item(s)?
Passport, babypowder for hair, wetnaps, travel towel, sleep sheet
- How do you think your round-the-world trip will change your life? How do you think it will affect and change you as a person?
I hope it will show me a new career path.
- If you had to sum up your thoughts/feelings about your round-the-world trip in one sentence, what would it be?
Damn excited!
- Why do you think people should go on round-the-world trips? Why not just take a regular old one- or two-week vacation instead?
To each their own, it is for certain people and not for others.
- What is the biggest myth that people have about round-the-world traveling?
It's too expensive.
- Why do you like to travel?
To see the life of the world.
- What is your advice for people planning their own RTW trip?
find locals to get to know.